"Privatization is the goal. The targets of school privatization are not supposedly underperforming students and teachers. The target is democracy itself. Private interests are just that – private. Turning public schools over to private interests frustrates even the possibility of democracy. Charter school apologists often claim that greater parental involvement is a hallmark of their model. But to the extent that it is true at all, it's involvement of a select group of parents, and not open to those of the entire community. Charter schools undermine what is left of community."

The Wall Street Journal published an obsequious piece entitled "Obama's Charter Stimulus." The piece is chock full of lies about charters outperforming traditional public schools. It goes on to call the backward, reactionary, and teach to the test methodologies preferred by the Secretary of Education reforms. Small wonder the mouthpiece of business and the employing class is unequivocally pro-charter!